Kate Fleming Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

horizontl (www.horizontl.co) is a technology social enterprise building a privacy-protecting digital identity solution for the delivery of mission-aligned community services. Our launch product is a contracts, compliance and payments platform designed to reduce exploitation and promote digital and financial inclusion among vulnerable full-service sex workers. Our solution facilitates trusted, private peer-to-peer exchange between verified, authorized non-exploited, non-exploitative sex workers and clients.Our differentiating technology innovation is a new cryptographically-protected model for reputation-based identity that brings best practices of community-based offline identity and reputation to an online community context. By balancing individual data privacy and control with accountability to community standards, horizontl enables a first-of-its-kind global distributed “good actor” network and knowledge commons.Our business, tech, and governance models work in service of our mission of increasing workplace safety, improving financial security, and normalizing protections for marginalized full-service sex workers.horizontl’s hybrid organizational model includes horizontl, a mission-locked for-profit technology company, and horizontl Collaborative, a non-profit that works with a co-design community of active sex workers in the UK & EU to produce the design & governance models, insights, and best practices for a responsible, community-centric solution. Both are based in the UK, where full-service sex work is legal (if not fully decriminalized).

London, United Kingdom

Collaborated with tech startup founders and teams to get new products and businesses market ready. Developed and executed go-to-market strategies. Built and led internal and external teams through launch and beyond. Advisor to UK/EU-based startups on launch in the US.

Greater New York City Area

Worked on the front lines with entrepreneurs and founding teams of innovative, disruptive, and visionary B2B and B2C companies to achieve ambitious growth goals. Assessed needs of multiple audiences and stakeholders (media, prospects, customers, users, investors) to develop and execute targeted, multifaceted, cost-effective marcomm programs that built brand awareness, reach target customers, create demand, and ultimately drive new customer acquisition. Anticipated—and suggested solutions to—business challenges likely to impede customer adoption, future investment, or scalability, before and after launch. Led development and execution of full-service programs combining branding, messaging, story development, and news creation with lead-generating online platforms, content-based lead funnels, and customer-engagement programs to create a measurable connection between earned media and owned relationships. Secured thousands of strategic, high-value placements in every major print, broadcast, and digital outlet (eg. The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fast Company, WIRED, TechCrunch), as well as strategic trade media.Delivered an average 400% increase in qualified leads during first six months of a client engagement, helping sales and marketing meet and surpass lead quotas and conversion goals. In addition to work with US companies, created US go-to-market strategies and programs for UK and European companies, positioning them to compete with and surpass existing US competitors. With partner relationships with more than 40 communications and marketing agencies in Europe, Asia, and South America, served clients in international expansion.Work helped clients raise over $60M in investment funding.

Greater New York City Area

Channel V Books specialized in publishing the work of business thought leaders and industry experts, offering them an alternative to working with major publishing houses. Channel V Books provided high production quality, competitive distribution channels, visibility, creative flexibility and, more importantly, profitability. We offered authors the support and services characteristic of traditional publishing but the freedom, speed and efficiency of going it alone. Published books were supported by a launch strategy created and implemented by Channel V Media's marketing and PR team. Published titles include RFPs Suck (Tom Searcy), 60 Days to Change (Peter Dunn), Innopreneur: 101 Chronicles on How Circumstance, Preparation and Brilliance Advance Innovation (Ton Langeler), and Who wrote this sh*t?!: The Rise and Fall and Rise of a Madison Avenue Lunatic (Steve Penchina)

Creator of Coup.ly, a mobile deal wallet helping consumers aggregate and access purchases from Groupon, Living Social, Gilt City, and other deal sites in a single mobile app.

Greater New York City Area

Developed PR expertise in the uniquely challenging context of generating media coverage for magazines, including The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Popular Science, Sunset and Working Mother, along with custom publications like airline in-flights. Secured coverage in hundreds of media outlets: NPR, The New York Times, TODAY, NBC Nightly News and other top-tier media.Built wide awareness for environmental publication The Green Guide, leading to its acquisition by National Geographic magazine.Launched the Popular Science-Sunset House of Innovation in Alamo, California, a home of the future built to showcase the newest in-home technologies.Led annual announcement of Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies list, collaborating with PR departments from 100 winning Fortune 500 companies to garner wide national coverage of initiative.

Brooklyn, Ny

Taught English to 13-17 year olds. Helped (I hope) increase the ranks of curious, open-minded critical thinkers with decent communication skills and some empathy in the world.

Ba, English

Ma, Phd Candidate, English

Awarded full academic funding and annual teaching fellowship